A squadron of warplanes flies over Idlib and Hama countryside and carries out intensive strikes targeting towns and villages in the area
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the flight of a squadron of 10 warplanes this morning, Sunday the 24th of December 2017, in conjunction with carrying out intensive airstrikes on areas in the north-eastern countryside of Hama, the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, and Sinjar Township in the eastern section of Idlib, targeting areas in the villages and the towns of Bayud, al-Shakuziyyeh, Al-Junaynah, Al-Qasr, Al-Rahjan, Umm Sehrij, Abu Dali, Al-Mshirfah, villages in Sinjar Township, villages in Al-Hamra Township, and other areas controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the factions in the both countryside, and no information about casualties was reported yet, amid calm for the second consecutive day in terms of the land military operations in the both countryside, between the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them against Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the rebel and Islamic factions.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 22nd of December 2017, that the military operations in the north-eastern countryside of Hama and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, completed their second consecutive month, since the start of the aerial and land preparation and the clashes between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Party of Turkestan and the rebel and Islamic factions against the regime forces backed by armed militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, through which the regime forces and their allies managed to impose their full control over the villages and the areas of al-Hawiyyah, Al-Rweideh, al-Syriatel Hill, Al-Shatib, Al-Zafriyyah, Al-Blil, Um Khazim, Um Trikiyyeh, Rajm al-Ahmar, Al-Shahatiyyah, Al-Mestriha, Jub Abyad, Rasm Abu Mayyal, Rasm Al-Sawwan, Rasm Al-Sawi, Rasm Al-Ahmar, Rasm Al-Tina, Abu Laffah, Al-Mshirfah, Jwi’eid, Hasrat, Khirbat Al-Rahjan, Hasnawi, Mweileh Shamali, Qasr Ali , Qasr Shawi, Tal Mahsar, Al-Rabiaa, Duma, Rabda, Hazem, Arafa, Mrijeb al-Jamlan, Al-Khefyeh, Sham Al Hawa, Al Rahraha, Sarha, Abu Al-Gher, Hasnawi and Baghidid.
The regime forces are seeking through these violent clashes to increase their scope of control and minimize the factions’ scope of control and to go deep into Idlib countryside and recover the birthplace of the regime’s Minister of Defense Fahd Jassem al-Freij, which was out of the control of the regime forces in the mid of July 2014, in which Al-Nusra Front (Al Qaeda in the Levant) took the control of it then, they are also seeking to recover the important are of Abu Dali, while intensive shelling is carried out daily by shells, missiles, warplanes and helicopter, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the warplanes and helicopters carried out more than 2500 raids, which targeted the clash areas and the factions and Tahrir Al-Sham-held areas, resulting in the fall of human losses, and the bombardment was accompanied by shelling by missiles believed to be ground-to-ground, and shelling by artillery, mortar and tanks shells on Hama and Idlib countryside.